Plantation 1998 Guadeloupe Single Cask

Agricole can be slightly vegetal, but this rum is more rounded with a slight rancio flavour, as you would find in an old cognac.

The Guadeloupe 1998 is to me on of the best single cask rums from Plantation because of it's sweetness, but also its strength at the same time. You can find some vanilla and other spice notes in it!

One of the best i tasted.
Balanced, sweet, smooth,
Rare, if you put your hands on it,you are lucky. Quality rum finished in Tokay and Cognac casks,it is truly unique.

This a sweeter type Plantation - but not to sweet and it has the "body", alcohol and deepth that I'm looking for, This is so full of different tastes and certain the best I have tasted from Guadeloupe

Very rare agricole from the Plantation series. Rich, sweet and spicy, with beeswax, sugar cane, cacao, coffee, tobacco leaf, nutmeg, cedar, pepper, cloves, grass, mint, green mango and other tropical fruits. Amazingly complex and rich.

I have been itching to try this rum for some time, but it's difficult to find and expensive. Net: loved it! It's a "ghost agricole", a "faux agricole" or some other adjective that would give agricoles a good name. Indeed this rum is made from 100% pressed Guadelupe sugar cane, distilled in a short-column still, and aged (for 11 years) in French oak barrels just as it needs to be to be called "Rhum Agricole". Differently, though, it gets another year of aging in used cognac barrels at Pierre Ferrand's facility in France. This is Plantation's signature technique that adds so much enjoyment to all their rums (though, in most cases, this secondary aging is for much shorter timeframes).

As you'd expect from a long-aged rum, you'll be tasting a lot of barrel here - hugely aromatic, vanilla and orange in the nose (some say chocolate!), deliciously-deep but not-too-sweet caramel with thick viscosity on the tongue, and a big long finish. And that secondary aging does a great job of balancing the vegetal notes attributable to the agricole style. Though "balanced" does not mean "dominates" - drinkers of high-end agricoles will appreciate this rum for the way it walks that fine line, staying true to the "brand" while strutting its own stuff.

A marvelous rum!

rhum agricole racé, plein de subtilité et équilibré. je ne me lasse pas de le re re decouvrir. ce serait un crime de ne pas le deguster sec, un de mes préféres. Tres bon rapport qualité prix (35eur) en Belgique.

Very interesting Plantation, the only agricole Plantation I know of!
It has an incredible smell, smoked, leather, grassy anise and kind of feel like heavy aromas inside, like metal or fuel, not like a caroni but almost.

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One of my favorite Plantations. You can taste a bit of the cane juice, but this is a nicely aged rum compared to most of the other French island rums.